Is It Out of Scope? — Web development
Is designing extra logo concepts out of scope for a web development project?
Yes. Logo design is brand identity work, unrelated to a development engagement's scope regardless of who the request is routed to.
On a development-only engagement, the client sometimes doesn't distinguish between "the agency" broadly and the specific discipline being contracted — so a logo request lands on the dev team's desk simply because they're the active point of contact, not because logo design has anything to do with the build itself.
Is it out of scope?
Yes, straightforwardly. Logo concepts are brand identity design work, entirely separate from implementing a website. This holds regardless of how the request is phrased or how small the ask sounds — it's outside the discipline the engagement was contracted for.
Clause typically implicated
Clause typically implicated
Exclusions clause→ — The engagement covers development, not brand or logo design — that's excluded outright rather than being a matter of degree.
Example contract wording
Example contract wording (illustrative, not legal advice)
Logo design isn't something we cover under this engagement — it's a design/branding specialty outside our development scope. Happy to point you toward a designer if you don't have one, and to implement whatever logo you land on once it's ready.
How MarginFlow flags it
MarginFlow flags logo and brand design requests outside_scope on development contracts with high confidence, since there's essentially no framing where this maps to development deliverables — the classifier's explanation is typically brief because the mismatch is unambiguous.